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Contrived   /kəntrˈaɪvd/   Listen
Contrived

adjective
1.
Showing effects of planning or manipulation.
2.
Artificially formal.  Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted.  "Contrived coyness" , "A stilted letter of acknowledgment" , "When people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"


Contrive

verb
(past & past part. contrived; pres. part. contriving)
1.
Make or work out a plan for; devise.  Synonyms: design, plan, project.  "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"
2.
Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.  Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent.
3.
Put or send forth.  Synonyms: cast, project, throw.  "The setting sun threw long shadows" , "Cast a spell" , "Cast a warm light"



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"Contrived" Quotes from Famous Books



... stood on the hearth with his back to the fire, looking with rather critical eyes round the pretty room that Hal had contrived to rob of nearly all its lodging-house aspect, she stood quite naturally and unconcernedly beside him ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page
... both comfort and picturesqueness. Tanned skins of the deer, elk, buffalo, bear, wolf, panther and wild cat hung on the walls of every house, and were spread on every floor. The women contrived fans and ornaments of the beautiful mottled plumage of the wild turkey. Cloth was hard to obtain in the wilderness, as it might be a year before a pack train would come over the mountains from the east, and so the women made clothing of the softest and lightest ...
— The Young Trailers - A Story of Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler
... Don hardly knew himself, but he contrived to get close behind the tattooed Englishman, and said softly, just as the officers were laughing and watching Ngati, who was going through his war-dance for their delectation, and distorting his features to the ...
— The Adventures of Don Lavington - Nolens Volens • George Manville Fenn
... himself together, and in a broken voice, and helped out by the Doctor's interrogations, contrived at last to put him in possession of the facts. But the conversation between the Prince and Geraldine he altogether omitted, as he had understood little of its purport, and had no idea that it was in any way related to his ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson
... apathy; but his heart was inflamed with a sudden and infernal glow. Yes, it had never ended in death in any case that he could recall of this time-honored trick of all the bushrangers; on the contrary, sooner or later, most victims had contrived to release themselves. Well, one victim was going to complete his release by hanging himself by the same rope to the same tree! Meanwhile he confronted his captor grimly, the coil in ...
— Stingaree • E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung


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